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' following is a specification.

.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE w. REED, or LAFAYETTE, INDIANA.

WAGON-BODY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,905, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed November 19, 1898. Serial No. 696,953. (No model.) i 7 To aZZ whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, GEORGE W. REED, a citizen of the United States, residing at La. fayette, in the county of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wagons, of which the My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in wagon-beds; and it consists in certain arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object of this my invention is to construct a wagon-body that may be readily changed or converted into either a' grainwagon, a stock-transporting wagon, or ahaywagon and also to provide means for detachably connecting the parts constituting the different forms of wagon. I attain these objects by means of the wagon'body illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout the several views. 1

Figure 1 is a side elevational View of the wagon-body arranged for transporting loose grain. Fig. 2 is an end elevational view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the wagon-body arranged as a stock-transporting wagon and showing the removable upper deck thereof. tional View of the wagon-body similar to Fi 3, but showing the hinged sides thereof swung downwardly to form a hay-wagon. Fig. 5 is an end elevational view of the same. Fig. 6 is an elevational detail view of the fulcrumrack. Fig. 7 is an endbroken sectional view of the end of the wagon-bed and a sectional elevational View of said rack and showing themanner of remov-ably securing said rack to said end of the wagon. Fig. 8 is an elevational View of the holddown-post, and Fig. 9 is a similar broken view to that of Fig. 7 and shows the manner of removably securing said posts to the end of the wagon.

The wagon-bed is composed of boards or planks laid longitudinally with the body of the wagon and across the bottom cross bars or timbers 3, and to which latter the bed is secured by bolts or other suitable securing means. The sides 4 and thebottom end portions 5 of the wagon are preferably madeof much stouter and thicker material than the top end portions 6 and the top wingsor sides 7, and all of said end portions and sides are Fig. at is a side eleva secured permanently to the bed 1. The top 8, and these are securely bolted at theirbottom ends to the bottom portions of the ends of the wagon-body. The removable sides or wings 7 of the grain or boxv wagon are securely bolted to the standards 12, and the latter are supported in vertical position in and by the supporting-sockets 13, which latter are permanently secured to the sides at by the staple-bolts 14:. The side or outer boa-rd platforms 15 rest on and are supported by the outer ends of the intermediate cross-bars 3, to which latter said platforms are secured, and the said platforms are further secured at their outer edges or the edges farther from the sides of the wagon by the semicircular braces 16, which are riveted at their top ends to the supporting-sockets 13, and their bottom ends or feet are securely bolted to the top sides of the outer platforms 15 by suitable bolts which pass through said feet, the platforms, and the cross-bars or cross-timbers of the floor of-the bed of the wagon. The centers of the side wings, which are subjected to the greater pressure when the wagon is loaded with loose grain, are reinforced by the standards 12, which latter are independent of the side wings, but bear against them, and are removably secured and supported by the central standard-supporting sockets 13, and the said standards have their top ends tied or connected by a tie-rod 17, which passes through their top ends, and said rod is threaded at its end to receive a screwnut by which it is caused to draw the top ends of said standards 12: together to clamp or brace and reinforce the central portions of the side wings 7. The ends of the wings 7 are clamped by the front and rear tie-rods 18, which pass through said wings, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and are screwed at one of their ends into the fixed screw-nuts 19, which are secured permanently to their outer top sides.

The foregoing-described construction of a wagon (illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2) constitutes my invention of a wagon-body for, holdstandards or posts 12*" and replacing said wings by the hinged open wings 19, the use and purpose of which I will now proceed to describe.

The standards of the wings for the cattlewagon I construct in two sections, a top section 20 and a bottom section 21, said top sections hinged to said bottom sections to swing outwardly by the hinges 22, and the said bottom sections 21 are adapted to loosely [it and to be removably secured in the standard-supporting sockets 13, whereby they are supported and-held in vertical position. The wings 19 are composed of longitudinally-extending rails or planks securely bolted at suitable intervals apart to the sections 20, and the ends of the cross timbers or rails 23 of the upper floor of the platform 24 are adapted to fit in and between any of said interstices and rest on the longitudinally-extending rails 19, and the said platform 24 is provided for the purpose of forming an upper deck or platform, on which grain or other material may be loaded, and which platform also serves the purpose of a top inclosure for confining stock or cattle in the wagon and preventing them climbing up the sides or Wings 19 thereof. The upper deck or floor 2 is composed of a series of boards laid longitudinally on the cross timbers or rails 23 and are securely spiked or bolted thereto, and

the said wings 19 in their entirety are readily removed from the wagon-body in the same manner as those of the box-wagon. The wings 19 are held in vertical position against the edges of the end portions of the wagon by the tie-rods 26, which are each linked at one of their ends to the eyebolt 27, and the said tie-rods have their opposite ends hooked to engage the eyebolts 28, which latter have their prolonged threaded ends provided with a suitable thumb or other screw whereby'the said tie-rods are drawn taut to securely and rigidly retain said wings in position.

The foregoing-described invention of a wagon can be readily converted into a haywagon, and the manner of performing the same I will now proceed to describe. I first provide four distance orsupporting posts 29,

which are bored longitudinally to receive a binding-bolt 30, and place the said posts in position on the outer board platforms 15. (See Figs. tand 5.) I then disconnect or unhook the tie-rods 26 and swing the side wings outwardly sufficiently to permit the upper floor or deck 24 to be removed. I next swing said wings 19 till they rest on the supporting-posts 29. The binding-rods 30 are now passed through the wings 19, the posts 29, and the platforms 15, and the screw-nuts are screwed on the ends of said rods to firmly clamp the whole together. The tie-rods 26 are now hooked on the links 31, which latter are connected to and suspended from the cross-bars 32. The cross-bars 32 are securely bolted to the ends of the wagon, and by means of these cross-bars and the tie-rods hooked thereto, which latter form diagonal braces to support the outer overhanging corners of the wings 19, the latter are firmly braced and reinforced to'snpport any load that maybe placed upon them. A removable rack or ladder 35 is provided with the hingehooks 3a, secured to the bottom ends or feet of said ladder and which are adapted to engage or to be hooked on the staple-bolts 35, and the said ladder is held firmly in vertical position against the inner side of one of the ends of the wagon-body by a binding or securing bolt 36. An opposing gripping-post 37, provided with the downwardly-inclined projecting pieces 38, is provided with the hooked or hinged piece 39, which is adapted to be hooked on the staple-bolt 40, and the said gripping-post37 is held in vertical posi tion directly opposite the racks against the inner side of the gripping-post end of the wagon by a binding-bolt 41. The wagon is now prepared and ready to receive its load of hay or other similar material, which when done, a limb of a tree is usually employed as a means for securing the hay in the wagon,

which process is readily accomplished by placing the thicker end of the limb in the rack or ladder and under one of the rounds thereof, which latter serve as a fulcrum, and by bringing the said limb over the top of the load of hay and finally bending the pliable yielding end of the limb downwardly. to compress the hay till the free end of said limb is passed under one of the inclined engaging hooks or catches 38, by which latter said limb is held and the hay is clamped down compactly on the Wagon.

Having thus fully described this my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to cover by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

1.- The combination with a wagon-body, of platforms extending out therefrom, hinged wings constituting supplemental sides for the body when raised, wing supporting posts resting on the platforms, and removable bolts adapted to be passed through the supportingposts, the wings, and the platforms when the wings are resting on the supporting-posts.

2. The combination with a wagon-body, of sockets secured to the sides thereof, standards reinovably fitted in the sockets and having an upper hinged section, wings secured to the upper hinged sections of the standards, platforms extending out from the body, wingsupporting posts resting on the platforms and removable bolts adapted to be passed through the supporting-posts, the wings and the platforms, when the wings are resting on the supporting-posts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. REED.

Witnesses:

S. H. TOBIAS, A. B. MoMILLIN. 

